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In article <15830008@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> hypes@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Gary Hypes) writes:

> I have no personal feeling for the crowd size, larger or smaller;
> however, I would certainly like to see "official" estimates from some
> organization with considerable less self-interest than NOW. 

You already have.  Most newspapers did not report NOW's estimates, or,
if they did, it was only several paragraphs down in the stories.  The
numbers that we all saw on the front page were not from NOW, but from
the park police.  

As a practical matter, of course, it is grossly unlikely that anybody
other than the police and the rally organizers would be willing to
take the trouble to do a careful estimate.  

Actually, what I would like to see whenever crowd size estimates are
reported is an error estimate as well.  



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